Seven package holiday firms could ask you to pay more after booking if Brexit increases costs - MSE

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Holidaymakers who've booked packages with at least seven major travel firms could have to pay a surcharge of up to 8% if Brexit significantly increases costs, MoneySavingExpert.com can reveal. But other firms are making 'Brexit promises' to customers to protect them from hikes...

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Browntoa

Sorry the page you've landed on doesn't exist

Browntoa

Link is

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2019/02/revealed--the-package-holiday-providers--brexit-proofing--your-h/?_ga=2.172410912.2040964023.1541176959-2122352284.1541176958

Former_MSE_Callum

Browntoa wrote: »

Link is

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2019/02/revealed--the-package-holiday-providers--brexit-proofing--your-h/?_ga=2.172410912.2040964023.1541176959-2122352284.1541176958

Thanks for that, there was an error in the code, should be fixed now

koalakoala

"could" doesn't mean much

Paul_Herring

Burying the lede in order to propagate Project Fear and engender clickbait I see.

...none of the firms we spoke to said they have any plans to charge extra....

theonlywayisup

Same old same old from MSE posts......headline followed by "could" followed by "if". Journalism at its most infantile.

martindow

“ ...none of the firms we spoke to said they have any plans to charge extra....
”
To be fair, this is politician speak for we will be but want to deny it at the moment using a form of words which gives us an option of doing what we appear to be denying.

rhialwencomp

theonlywayisup wrote: »

Same old same old from MSE posts......headline followed by "could" followed by "if". Journalism at its most infantile.

What would you rather? It's an event that will almost certainly have currency rates implications, and MSE is pointing out that if that happens then you could pay more, and there's little you can do about it.

Not a lot of good reporting on it afterwards if it happens, but this could save people some money, which is the point of this site- not "journalism", but information to help people make financial decisions.

People being informed about the risks, even if they decide to take them anyway, is a good thing.
Say that a package comes up that's near identical, I'd rather take it from a company who says that they won't put up the price than one who says "maybe".
You might instead decide that you'd rather go with a company that isn't guaranteeing on surcharges because you overall prefer the provider and you don't think the risk is that great. That's a valid response too, but the important thing is that we both made an informed choice.

Paul_Herring

What would you rather?

Accurate articles, that don't exaggerate, or otherwise mislead, in order to get people to read them.

jonesMUFCforever

I also remember the bad times where holiday firms used to get away with surcharges when the price of oil was sky high.
Lazy businesses blame BREXIT for everything.

Nobody will convince me that holiday firms have not already costed BREXIT into their prices already.